Senior AWS Application Lead

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Private healthcare

Learning budget

Udemy access

Hybrid/ flexible working

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a hands-on AWS app development software engineer to design and implement controls, tooling, and engineering practices that enable engineers to use AWS core platform services safely and effectively. The role involves assessing team maturity, pairing with teams, and coaching while migrating workloads to the new platform.

You will collaborate with engineering, platform, and security teams to drive adoption and establish scalable practices across the

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on AWS application development experience in enterprise environments.
• Ability to turn research and exploration into practical implementations.
• Excellent cross-functional communication across technical and stakeholder groups.

Responsibilities

• Investigate current patterns for enterprise use of AWS applications and tooling.
• Design and implement guardrails, controls, and engineering patterns for AWS app development.
• Define path to platform, support team adoption, and application migration.
• Explain platform capabilities to teams and drive development practice changes.
• Lead research and PoCs, aligning with engineering teams to enable uptake.

Skills

AWS

Software engineering

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Step Functions

CI/CD

CloudFormation

Job description

About Us:

the company is an engineering consultancy bridging Quality Engineering, Cloud Platforms and Developer Experience. We help enterprises reliably bring high-impact digital products to market faster, cheaper, and safer, working with technology leaders facing complex business challenges.

We take as much pride in our people, culture and work-life balance as we do in making better software. We're not just making better software. We're making the making of software better. Collaborative, entrepreneurial and dedicated to problem solving, we bring the step change our customer need to sustain innovation. Our values challenge us to do the best we can for the company, our customers and most importantly our team. This is an opportunity for you to build the organisation from the ground up, use your voice to drive change and help transform organisations and problem domains.

Role Description

• This role is for a strong hands-on AWS app developer software engineer(s) who can help design and implement controls, tooling, and engineering practices.
• The focus is on enabling engineers to use AWS core platform services and technologies safely and effectively through the right mix of internal consulting and activation.
• Assessing team maturity and needs through outreach and supporting the engineering principals needed to migrate app workloads to the new platform
• Pairing with teams and hands on coaching/doing

Key Responsibilities:

• Investigate current patterns for enterprise use of AWS applications and tooling
• Design and implement practical guardrails, controls, and engineering patterns for AWS application development
• Contribute to definition of path to platform, support team adoption and application migration
• Help define how teams should comprehend the platform capability
• Explore changes to the development practices to drive adoption
• Run research, proof-of-concept work, and technical alignment with teams
• Work across engineering, platform, security, and adjacent enterprise teams to drive uptake and adoption
• Help shape scalable practices and AWS maturity among teams

Required Experience:

Strong hands-on background as a AWS application development software engineering:

• Strong technical understanding of the AWS ecosystem with a detailed understanding of developer tooling and capabilities and technologies.
• Experience working step functions and applications in complex enterprise domains.
• Ability to work in ambiguous problem spaces and turn research or experimentation into practical implementation
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work across technical disciplines and stakeholder groups
• Curiosity, sound engineering judgement, and comfort operating across discipline boundaries
• The ability to act as an internal consultant, overcome resistance and misalignment to drive platform adoption.

Desirable Experience:

Experience with enterprise adoption of AI-assisted development tools

• Familiarity with secure developer environments, enterprise guardrails, or policy enforcement
• Experience with containerised development environments or remote/offloaded development models
• Exposure to telemetry, usage analytics, or engineering reporting pipelines
• Experience in regulated or control-heavy enterprise environments
• Some data engineering or analytics capability, particularly where reporting and insight generation are part of the role

Working at the company

We have grown from six founders to 180+ people across five countries in three years, and what sets us apart isn't the pace, it's how we grow.* Real flexibility, in practice. We trust you to perform at your best and still have a life outside of work, with genuine hybrid working, a home office budget, an open feedback culture where your voice shapes decisions, and time off when life needs it (birthday included).

• When the company wins, you win. We offer profit share so success is shared, meaningful recognition for great work, and benefits that look after you and your family, including private healthcare, competitive salary benchmarking, and a confidential employee assistance program covering counselling, mental health support, and financial wellbeing.
• A community you'll genuinely want to be part of. Interest based communities like running and book clubs, Women in Tech group, monthly socials, and cross regional events bring people together across the company. An inclusive, collaborative culture where you don't need to conform to succeed, where people support one another and feel comfortable being themselves.
• Where meaningful work meets real growth. You will tackle complex, real world problems at the forefront of platform engineering, AI, security, and scalable systems. Your growth is supported by learning budgets, Udemy access, a clear career framework, internal mobility, and thought leadership opportunities that take your impact beyond the company.

*At the company, we believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes, and inclusion creates the conditions for everyone to thrive. We are proud to have built a family friendly working environment and have many employees who have caring responsibilities alongside work. We welcome applications from people who require flexibility and will be happy to discuss needs on an individual basis.*

*We are committed to fostering a culture where all team members feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We celebrate individuality and our differences and understand that some differences may mean that you require changes made to the interview process. We are happy to cater to your needs to make the interview accessible, if this is something you require please let us know by emailing us at* *[e-mail]*